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See a Random Slashdot Story From the Last 20 Years (destinyland.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Happy aniversary, Slashdot! To commemorate your 20th year, here's a special web project I created. Every time you reload the page, it pulls up another one of the 162,000 stories Slashdot has posted over the last 20 years -- each time choosing a different story at random.
The original submission has one caveat. If you keep reloading the page long enough, you'll eventually get a story by Jon Katz.
The original submission has one caveat. If you keep reloading the page long enough, you'll eventually get a story by Jon Katz.
Blocked by Adblock (uBlock Origin) - probably that's for the better considering the "usefulness" of this idea.
... and now I feel old.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
Thank you - some interesting trips down memory lane (no pun intended) especially when see from the '90s or early 2000s in which speed, memory/disk sizes, resources, etc. which would be totally inadequate now.
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Seriously, if you want to know what was going on then a Jon Katz article has to be part of it.
For you kids that don't know what I'm talking about, search it.
The main news page naturally presents you with articles we've seen before. Taking it to this extreme is unnecessary.
The original submission has one caveat. If you keep reloading the page long enough, you'll eventually get a story by Jon Katz.
And just when I thought none of the /. editors had any sense of humor remaining.
Or any historical knowledge of the early days of /. , for that matter.
Hopefully he's doing a DISTINCT on the query.
Hey, maybe modern day slashdot should consider that too!
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
The comments are disabled. How else am I suppose to warn people about 9/11, Donald Trump Becoming president, or the nuclear attack on the west coast US. Oh wait, I found the dial.
Sorry... Happy 40th Slashdot.
--Posted on my IBM Temporal Phone 8
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Pretty amusing, especially the older stories (10-20 years). Not so much for the stories themselves, but the reaction of the /. gallery to them (to a Nokia smartphone in 2001: Why the hell does everything need to be connected to the Internet?)
August 14, 2012 @01:39AM (#40981435) Journal
Has Slashdot really devolved to the point where nobody even bothers correcting misuse of the word "hacker" anymore?
While I might love hacking a mars rover. That has no relation to breaking anyone's security.
Shame that Slashdot itself lacks now the programmer skills to do, say,
http://www.slashdot.org/random...
Isn't it?
This is fun. Here's one from 1998. https://slashdot.org/story/98/...
Follow the sfgate link to see the future as it was known by executives at Netscape and AOL.
Most people go online because "they want to communicate and get quick content and information," said Wendy Brown, vice president of electronic commerce at AOL, which has 12 million subscribers. "They don't necessarily go online to buy. A lot of purchases come from impulse buying."
Although Microsoft's Start -- combined with its lucrative e-commerce sites and its control of the desktop -- pose a serious threat to Internet companies that combine content, e-commerce and searching -- such as AOL, Netscape, Yahoo and Excite -- those companies are not about to disappear, said Adam Schoenfeld, an e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications in New York.
Only tried it a couple of times, but the old articles it selected had far more funny comments than anything I've seen on Slashdot recently.
Perhaps the selection mechanism is somehow biased in favor of good articles, even though it claims to be random? For example, it might be favoring articles with more comments?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
It will be a dupe of a dupe anyway.
Slashdot's always been going downhill and it always will be. People have been saying this for twenty years now, so why stop?
How does a hosts file work once ad networks and ad exchanges start pseudorandomly generating subdomains? Unlike filtering resolvers such as Pi-hole, a hosts file can't use wildcards.
As of this writing, all four of those intel.malwaretech.com pages display in their entirety "Back soon."
Malware using a "domain generation algorithm" contains a formula to deterministically calculate registrable domains* that the botnet operator will register in the near future. Those can be predicted through the method described in the paper, and it's rate-limited by the non-zero price of registering a domain, so you might see a new domain every day or so.
The same cannot be said of subdomains,* such 94c22ef3.bigbucksads.example, 08e7061d.bigbucksads.example, 3c068f47.bigbucksads.example, and 0327f573.bigbucksads.example. These are generated in real time and resolved using wildcard DNS, as it costs effectively nothing to register 4.2 billion distinct subdomains of an already existing domain. In fact, the Sandstorm framework uses the subdomain to hold a randomly generated session ID.
* A "public suffix" is one of the labels in Mozilla's Public Suffix List, such as org. A "registrable domain" is defined as a domain name that contains exactly one more label than a public suffix, such as slashdot.org. A "subdomain" is a domain name that contains at least one more label than a registrable domain, such as hardware.slashdot.org.
I haven't built any DNS filtering tools myself, but I understand how Pi-hole works. It's similar to your solution in that it filters DNS, but it's more flexible than a hosts file because it allows wildcards for subdomains.
You can generate domains all day: Pay 4 'em - they better have some SERIOUS "$" to pay for 1,000's to millions of them (not practical or EVEN POSSIBLE for most doing it).
True, you have to pay for a registered domain. But once you own a registered domain, you don't have to pay more for additional subdomains under that domain.
You appear confused.
You mention buying DGA domains, presumably before the author of a piece of client-side malware does. This is a tactic that some law enforcement organizations have used to fight client-side malware. This tactic costs money for each domain, as you correctly mention.
But I was not referring to this tactic. I was referring to a hosts-evasion technique that can be executed for the price of one domain. An advertisement network operator buys one domain and creates a practically unbounded number of subdomains under this domain. This costs the price of one domain and has absolutely nothing to do with a DGA, nor with "SPENDING MONEY YOU DON'T NEED TO SPEND".
The reason the author of client-side malware registers multiple domains in the first place instead of registering one domain and creating subdomains is that law enforcement can more easily seize one domain than multiple domains. But because tracking users from site to site with a third-party cookie is not (currently) a crime, the ad network operators are not concerned about domain seizure. Therefore, the ad network operators save money by registering one domain and creating subdomains.
Do you require a live proof of concept using wildcard DNS and subdomain generation?
Can Pi-Hole speed you up like resolving like a FASTER remote DNS via hardcoded favorite sites
Yes. Pi-hole can integrate somewhat with your proprietary application to protect an entire network. The administrator of a Pi-hole installation can generate a blacklist and upload it, and Pi-hole will apply it to all machines using it for DNS.
Let's see: From a LOGICAL standpoint, you have to buy a Raspberry Pi board right?
Pi-hole is DNS resolver software that can run on any rooted Linux box on your network. Some might buy a Raspberry Pi SBC and dedicate it to Internet filtering, but it isn't strictly necessary. If you're running custom Linux firmware on your existing router, for example, you may be able to put Pi-hole on that. It can also run in a Docker container on a Windows laptop for protection on the go, though I would advise putting a hosts file in front of Pi-hole in that situation because Docker slows things down.
NATIVE & FREE
If ad networks start using random subdomains, and the "NATIVE & FREE" product can't block random subdomains, then the "NATIVE & FREE" product is NATIVE & FREE & USELESS.
Oh, and last I checked, your application wasn't free software either for fear of malicious forks.
last I checked [slashdot.org], your application wasn't free software either for fear of malicious forks.
My software is 100% free no cost
Your application is available without charge; I'm not disputing this. I'm disputing that it's "free" in one sense commonly used on Slashdot over the past 20 years. As you wrote in #55453837:
This attitude toward forks contradicts how the GNU project and the Debian project define "free software". See "What is free software?" and "Debian Free Software Guidelines".
RaspberryPI's & Linux boxes COST MONEY
So does a Windows license for running your application. Or do you consider Wine a fully supported platform?
A Windows license is not zero cost.